This confirms for the umpteenth time what an utter ignoramus and needy attention-seeker Trump is.

I have been critical of Alex Witt in the past, but she outdid herself today. She conducted a thorough, crystal clear, and ultra-informative interview with infectious disease specialist Dr. William Schaffner from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine about the Ebola virus and how it spreads. Unfortunately, MSNBC only provided part of the excellent segment that extended into a second interview with their medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman. I'm including an earlier conversation that she and Snyderman had instead.

Donald Trump could learn a thing or two about a thing or two. Whipping up fear inside the U.S. is reckless and stupid, two things at which Trump excels. One thing at which he miserably fails: Telling the truth.

The fears are unfounded, Alex. I'm going to tell you honestly that we in public health and infectious diseases are a little surprised at how much anxiety there is about this, because we know about this infection, we know it's very serious, we know how it's transmitted, and we're very confident that we can take care of such patients safely...

They're going to take very good care of this patient absolutely safely, no hazard to folks in the street...

You can imagine that the resources [in Africa] are not as elaborate as those that we have here. .. It's the supportive care [that we have here] that's going to help these people surmount this infection...

Being able to send specimens immediately off to the laboratory and get the results back quickly, and then assessing organ function... we can monitor the heart very carefully, and then if something goes wrong, we can call in the specialists to attend to it, we have the drugs available, and we can monitor their impact very, very carefully...

We have [resources] available in this country and virtually in every large community hospital. It's very reassuring...

In Africa [Ebola] strikes most people who are adults, because they exchange body fluids... One of the ways it's spread in Africa has to do with funeral practices and cultural activities that are deeply embedded. When someone dies, out of respect to the person who's passed, the body is washed very, very carefully, including all the body orifices, and that's done by family and dear friends. And it's in that actual activity that they're exposed to the virus and transmission can occur to those family and friends... That's part of the reason it's spreading...

Airborne transmission has not been demonstrated... is very unlikely. So there's no good evidence of that at present [In a later part of the segment that wasn't included in the clip, this is confirmed and expanded upon by Snyderman]. And in any event, these patients that are being brought here are being protected from airborne transmission. Our healthcare workers are taking the appropriate precautions...

[Re: The protective gear]: They know how to put it on and in what sequence to take it off so that they don't contaminate themselves. They're very rigorously trained, and when you do it, you're observed doing it correctly...

It's not the amount of oxygen [in the room, levels, ventilation], it's that the room is balanced so that air goes into the room, it doesn't leak out. It is then filtered and exhausted after it's cleansed, so it's very rigorously controlled.

There was so much more information that we could all appreciate. MSNBC did us a disservice by editing down the segment.

“The pool is already large enough, the number of people who have signed up is large enough; I’m confident the program will be stable."

Had the first month and a half of the Affordable Act roll out not been such a mess, the goal would have likely been reached by now. But between the GOP sabotaging and obstructing the president's efforts every step of the way, and the website itself preventing so many from being able to enroll, it's pretty remarkable that the numbers are what they are.

My personal preference would have been Medicare for All, but Obamacare is better than what we've had up 'til now. Big Insurance is still way too big, but with any luck, we'll gradually become a single payer country state by state. Vermont has already passed legislation, and Maine, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, California, and Pennsylvania are showing interest.

President Obama said Friday enough people have already signed up for ObamaCare that he is “confident” his signature legislative accomplishment will function properly.

“At this point, enough people are signing up that the Affordable Care Act is going to work,” Obama said in a WebMD interview. “The insurance companies will continue to offer these plans. We already have 4 million people, over 4 million people, signed up."

The president said he expects “a larger number” still to be enrolled by March 31.

He also said, "We know that it's working because we have 4.2 million people who have already signed up. On a daily basis we're getting tens of thousands of people who are signing up."

The average premium paid for Obamacare coverage on a leading insurance website has dropped by nearly $100 a month since October as more young people sign up, a new industry report shows. [...]

The average premium for 2014 health plans sold through EHealth tumbled from $370 a month to $273 over that period, which the company said reflects a higher proportion of younger applicants.

See, the whole point is to get enough younger, healthier people to sign up in order to "help offset the higher medical costs of older, sicker policyholders in the overall insurance pool." And, oops, GOP! They're doing just that!

Oh, and about some of those rising rates we've been hearing so much about?

While rates are up, annual deductibles went down on average.

Many consumers are eligible for federal premium subsidies based on their income, shielding them from the full cost.

So there's that. Bummer, huh naysayers?

Fun fact: Minnesota had the lowest average premium for individual plans, and Oklahoma had the cheapest family plans. Alaska had the highest for individuals, New Jersey had the highest for family plans.

Did I mention that four million Americans have now enrolled on healthcare.gov and through state exchanges? What a commie Marxist French gay Kenyan failure.

If you're like most people and your eyes glaze over the minute you see someone on the Tee Vee Machine trying to explain the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) for the umpteenth time, then this video is for you. It goes by quickly, it's simple, it's easy to understand, it's hilarious, and it's (ta-daaa!) informative. What more could an uninformed American without decent health care ask?

Why, it's so ABC-123 that even a stubbornly resistant, I-hate-all-things-Obama Republican could understand it! And actually be convinced to accept the fact that Obamacare is here to stay. And that Obamacare is indeed beneficial! And that Obamacare is not all those icky, putrid, Marxist, socialist, commie, evil plotty things that ClusterFox is saying it is. Imagine that.

Watch and learn, America:

Tell me that this charismatic, new young Explainer in Chief, JoshSundquist (move over, Bill Clinton) shouldn't be everywhere talking about the Affordable Care Act to everyone.

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